Thomas Anderson

Thomas Anderson

• Birth: say 1684 - New Kent County, Virginia
• Death: Oct 25 1757 - Albemarle County, Virginia
• Parents: Robert Anderson, Cecelia
• Wife: Agnes [Gannaway], Mary

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Biography

Extracted from “Descendants of Thomas Anderson”

1. Thomas6 Anderson (Robert5, Robert4, Richard3, "York Watershed"2, "Colonial Virginia"1) was born Abt. 1684 in New Kent County, Virginia, and died October 1757 in Albemarle County, Virginia.

He married

• (1) Agnes Gannaway Bef. 1706. She was born Abt. 1685 in New Kent County, Virginia, and died Bef. 1730 in Albemarle County, Virginia.
• (2) Mary ? Abt. 1733. She died Bef. 1757.

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Family

Notes for Agnes Gannaway. “It would appear that Agnus (Gannaway) Anderson could be an elder sister (by four years) of John I, the daughter of Marmaduke & Henrietta (Campmartin) Gannaway of London.”

Children of Thomas Anderson and Agnes Gannaway are:

1. Ann Anderson, born December 1706 in New Kent County, Virginia; died Bef. 1776 in Hanover County, Virginia.
2. Elizabeth Anderson, born Abt. 1708.
3. Susanna Anderson, born Abt. 1710; died in Shelby County, Kentucky. She married John Williams in Goochland County, Virginia.
4. Frances Anderson, born Aft. 1712. She married William Hughes
5. Thomas Anderson, born Abt. 1714 in New Kent County, Virginia; died 1780 in Mecklenburg County, Virginia.
6. Charles Anderson, born Abt. 1716 in New Kent County, Virginia; died 1786 in Cumberland County, Virginia.
7. daughter Anderson, born Abt. 1718. She married William Cornwell (see item 1., father's will)
8. Agnes Anderson, born Abt. 1720. She married ? Leah.
9. Gideon Anderson, born Abt. 1722 in New Kent County, Virginia; died Aft. 1755
10. James Anderson, born Abt. 1725; died 1782 in Cumberland County, Virginia

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Notes for Mary ?: Goochland County Wills & Deeds 1736-1742, page 1. a release of dower rights of Mary Anderson, wife of xxxxxxxxx Anderson in deed for 290a conveyed to John Smith by deed 16th November. Recorded 2 Dec. 1736.

Children of Thomas Anderson and Mary Unknown are:

1. William Anderson, born 1734.
2. David Anderson, born Aft. 1736.
3. Micajah Anderson, born Abt. 1738 in New Kent County, Virginia.
4. Judah Anderson, born Abt. 1740

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Notes

From Patrick J. Anderson: Thomas's birth date had been corrected (b. after 1680) to reflect the fact that he does not appear as a land holder in the 1704 rent roll and may differ from the writings of William Pope Anderson. Anderson - Overton, A Continuation of Anderson Family Records (1936) & Early Descendants fo William Overton & Elizabeth Waters of Virginia & Allied Families, by William Pope Anderson, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1945.

In 1719 Gilbert Gibson was given a patent adjacent to Matthew and Thomas Anderson in New Kent County. Thomas's association with Robert Anderson I derives from an analysis of precessioning records in St. Paul's Parish published in the book above. Thomas was a church warden for St. Paul's Parish in the 1720's. In 1733 Thomas was replaced as a church warden of St. Paul's parish and ordered to surrender the moneys of the parish to Thomas Merriweather. He continues as a vestryman until 1737 when he was removed as vestryman. In 1739 he is restored as vestryman until 1754. As can be seen in the records below he was dabbling in western lands during this period and even spent some time in jail in 1738. By 1739 he had apparently left his western lands in the control of his eldest sons and had returned to his lands in St. Paul's parish. Frontier life was not to his liking. Thomas's acquisition of western lands would have been in the interests of his many sons and is it unlikely that he removed into western Hanover County to the Goochland border area and into the area that became Albemarle County, Virginia until he was elderly and living with one of those sons.

References

• https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~anderson/va/trees/thomas1.html cites
  • (1) William Pope Anderson, Anderson Family Records, (W. F. Schaeffer & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; 1936).
  • (2) William Pope Anderson, Anderson - Overton, A Continuation of Anderson Family Records (1936) & Early Descendants of William Overton & Elizabeth Waters of Virginia & Allied Fa, (Cincinnati, Ohio; 1945.).
  • (3) C. G. Chamberlayne, The Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia 1706-1786, (Clearfield Company, Inc.; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland 1999).
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Anderson-2564
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Feb 8 2019, 13:59:09 UTC

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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Feb 8 2019, 14:13:38 UTC

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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Feb 8 2019, 14:27:04 UTC